Network Graph

The Network Graph visualization supports undirected and directed graph structures. This type of visualization illuminates relationships between entities. Entities are displayed as round nodes and lines show the relationships between them. The vivid display of network nodes can highlight non-trivial data discrepancies that may be otherwise be overlooked.

Current limitations include:

The visualization will only show relationships from the first 100,000 rows in a table. A filter can include rows from 100,001 or beyond in the table, but the graph will still not display them.

Internet Explorer 8 and below are not supported. When using Fusion Tables with an unsupported browser, the Network Graph visualization will not be available. Embedded network graphs are replaced with a static image.

Each row of a table represents one relationship in the graph. For example, a table and network graph about people and their dogs might look like:

Person

Dog

Breed

...

Joe

Spot

boxer

...

Joe

Trinity

black lab

...

The network graph shows each row as a line connecting a person and a dog. Since Joe is listed twice, he's shown as one bigger node.

To create a Network Graph in the New look:

[+] > Add chart

Click the Network Graph button.

By default, the graph will display links between the first two text columns.

Select Show link direction between nodes to display directional arrows.

Click the Nodes shown of 22 box (22 unique names) to reduce the number of nodes shown.

You can see that there are three host plant species that are only eaten by males and four that are only eaten by females. You can also see that the caterpillars are most frequently found eating the plant species Hampea Appendiculata by the size of the lines drawn to it.